Pardon me while I have a strange interlude

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The Devil's Advocate thing is great. I'm going to bookmark it and link to it anytime someone is being an ass.

The only point I remain skeptical about is not allowing certain kinds of commenters (such as non-disabled in a disabled discussion) and still expecting to learn from it.

That's definitely the ideal, not the reality. But they do say a lot of things in this one (and the one it refers to about the Foxnewsification of commenting) that I think some people need to hear: re, all comments are not always of value, and asshole mansplainers shouldn't expect their comments to be published, and when they aren't, it isn't violating their free speech.